Social Media Podcast 26 - Live form the "Question Time" New Media Breakfast

Edition 26 is a live recording from the 1st Anniversary of the New Media Breakfast.  The event was "Question Time" style with a panel of 5 answering questions from the floor and, questions sent in via Twitter, Facebook and email.

We had around 70 people in attendance who were treated to champagne or buckfizz on arrival to celebrate the 1st Anniversary of the event.



Our panel included:
Valerie Surgenor, Senior Associate, MacRoberts LLP
Ben Rogers, Operations & Business Development Director, Attacat
Belinda Roberts, Managing Director, Winning Entrepreneurs
Gordon McIntyre-Kemp Managing Director, Intelligise
Gary Ennis Managing Director, NS Design

Gordon White took the Chairman role for the event.

We had a range of questions on a variety of subjects including the following:

Can you explain the difference in my rights as a blog owner if I elect for a moderated or unmoderated blog?

And, what defines a moderated blog? Is a blog deemed to be moderated if:
• I choose to approve comments before they are posted
• I use a spam filter
• I delete offensive or, irrelevant posts

We are seeing more and more video online. Will this eventually overtake the written word and how can we stay ahead of the game with videos online?

What is the panel's advice for getting more people to view your video content?

Is it possible to have a meaningful social media presence using just one platform? If so, which one?

As a Non Executive Director of Scotland's largest Children's Charity Aberlour Childcare Trust we are working with fatBuzz to embrace and embed Social Media across our 47 locations in Scotland. What ideas do the panel have to help third sector organisations such as Aberlour get there opportunities, events and needs across to potential Staff, Volunteers, Individual Donors, Corporate Sponsors and Trusts?

Can you offer any guidelines about what proportion of your marketing budget should be spent on social media?

What content aggregator tools are available to assist with gathering and monitoring content?

Does the arrival of Google Instant require any radical amendments to my search marketing strategy?

I hope you enjoy the podcast and, if you have any comments or questions please leave a comment below or, on the fatBuzz Facebook Page.

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2 experts join the panel

We are delighted to announce we have confirmed the last 2 places on the panel for our 1st Anniversary Champagne Breakfast at No.29 next Friday (24th September).

Gordon McIntyre-Kemp
Gordon McIntyre-Kemp who presented at the July New Media Breakfast - "Social Media Marketing and the Bottom Line".

Schooled in Sales and Marketing as a P&G graduate Gordon worked on big brands like Wash &Go, Head and Shoulders and the Launch of Pantene before moving into major account sales for Northern Foods.

As the Managing Director of First Tuesday in Scotland and the Now-Business network Gordon was a pioneer of online business to business networking and discussion group facilitation in the 1990’s.

Gordon has recently launched Intelligise Ltd a full service business development practice to advise medium to large sized firms, on social media marketing, sales growth, networking and recruitment strategy.

Gary Ennis
Gary is a regular attendee at the New Media Breakfast and has participated in discussion from the floor in the past; we are delighted he has agreed to take a more formal role at this event.

Gary is the founder and Managing Director of Digital Agency NSDesign. For the past 12 years they have been building websites, providing web hosting, and (more recently) delivering Social Media Training and Consultancy to businesses large and small.

This completes a fantastic panel of experts for the next New Media Breakfast, I hope you will be able to join us and find out all the things you want to know about social media.

Please remember to send us in any questions either via Twitter, email or, leave it as a comment on this post.


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